the ULTIMATE reality TV special

[Spooner]

Russian Roulette on TV

NEW YORK ? A game of Russian Roulette (search) with a real, loaded gun is slated to be broadcast live on British television this Sunday in what is being billed as the ultimate reality-TV stunt.

"It is a real gun with a real bullet and I am really putting it against my head," said Derren Brown (search) a self-styled "psychological illusionist."

Brown plans to pull the trigger of a 348 Smith & Wesson several times, sensing which chamber the bullet is in, and plans to point the gun away from his body and fire the killer shot harmlessly into the air.

"If I am not 100 percent sure, I will not pull the trigger," Brown said, admitting, "It would be humiliating but it would be preferable to the other consequences."

Brown said the show won't glamorize gun violence.

"We are dealing with it in the most serious and strenuous way possible. The drama will not come from the gun part, but from the fun and games and entertainment that comes from the selection process."

The show will air on a several-second delay in case Brown shoots himself. If that happens, viewers will not see the gun fire into his head. Instead, the screen will go blank and display a message advising viewers what's happened.

 

[LordJezo]

Spooks me out just thinking about it.

But I wonder if it will be a hoax.

 

[Hammer]

they should show it if he does slip up. how lame.

 

[00Jones]

We need a webcast!!

 

[MacBaine]

Anyway we can watch?

 

[filmmaker]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Anyway we can watch?

No kidding! But I expect a stream to be on the web soon afterwards.

 

[Kev]

who cares, it's just a magic trick. i don't call that david blaine garbage "reality tv"

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: Kev
who cares, it's just a magic trick. i don't call that david blaine garbage "reality tv"

David Blaine.....pffffff.....

 

[Que-TiP]

i hope he shoots himself

 

[Anubis]

i wanna see grey matter go flying

 

[hoyaguru]

It's BS, just a magic trick. Like the guys who said they could catch a bullet in their teeth and did it on live TV.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: hoyaguru
It's BS, just a magic trick. Like the guys who said they could catch a bullet in their teeth and did it on live TV.

If you have The Glow you can do that.. and the Shogun of Harlem will stand no chance against you!

 

[Rainsford]

The show will air on a several-second delay in case Brown shoots himself. If that happens, viewers will not see the gun fire into his head. Instead, the screen will go blank and display a message advising viewers what's happened.

Well that's good to know. We don't want to see Darwinism in action after all

 

[PatboyX]

and yet america is considered the number one producer of stupid tv.

 

[notfred]

So obvious that he'll know which chamber it's in.

 

[Lonyo]

several times, sensing which chamber the bullet is in

It's BS, just a magic trick. Like the guys who said they could catch a bullet in their teeth and did it on live TV

Actually, he gets the participant who loaded the bullet in the gun to say the number of each chamber, and he uses this to try and "sense" which chamber the bullet is in by the way the participant says each word.

No magic, as the article says, he's a psychological illusionist, not a magician. He uses psychology and plays upon peoples minds, not sleigh of hand. (If you've done psychology, you'll realise our minds aren't all that great and can be manipulated fairly easily, also, lie detectors etc detect whether we are lying by changes in us, he does the same, just by our voices to help him tell)

 

[BooGiMaN]

hmmm is he going to point the gun at david blaine when the bullet is really fired and david blain will catch it with his butt cheeks of steel? now that reality tv

 

[Kev]

"No magic, as the article says, he's a psychological illusionist, not a magician"

So in other words, he is a magician?

 

[Conky]

I wanna see him do it with a semi-automatic handgun.

 

[rh71]

They shouldn't have mentioned the several second delay... now people won't be as nervous to watch it... and then... what's the point ?

 

[prvteye2003]

Linky no worky

Originally posted by: Spooner
Russian Roulette on TV

NEW YORK ? A game of Russian Roulette (search) with a real, loaded gun is slated to be broadcast live on British television this Sunday in what is being billed as the ultimate reality-TV stunt.

"It is a real gun with a real bullet and I am really putting it against my head," said Derren Brown (search) a self-styled "psychological illusionist."

Brown plans to pull the trigger of a 348 Smith & Wesson several times, sensing which chamber the bullet is in, and plans to point the gun away from his body and fire the killer shot harmlessly into the air.

"If I am not 100 percent sure, I will not pull the trigger," Brown said, admitting, "It would be humiliating but it would be preferable to the other consequences."

Brown said the show won't glamorize gun violence.

"We are dealing with it in the most serious and strenuous way possible. The drama will not come from the gun part, but from the fun and games and entertainment that comes from the selection process."

The show will air on a several-second delay in case Brown shoots himself. If that happens, viewers will not see the gun fire into his head. Instead, the screen will go blank and display a message advising viewers what's happened.